Enlightenment and the gasping city: Mongolian Buddhism at a time of environmental disarray
With air pollution now intimately affecting every resident of Ulaanbaatar, the capital of Mongolia, Saskia Abrahms-Kavunenko seeks to understand how, as a physical constant throughout the winter months, the murky and obscuring nature of air pollution has become an active part of Mongolian religious...
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Zusammenfassung: | With air pollution now intimately affecting every resident of Ulaanbaatar, the capital of Mongolia, Saskia Abrahms-Kavunenko seeks to understand how, as a physical constant throughout the winter months, the murky and obscuring nature of air pollution has become an active part of Mongolian religious and ritual life. Enlightenment and the Gasping City identifies air pollution as a boundary between the physical and the immaterial, showing how air pollution impresses itself on the urban environment as stagnation and blur. She explores how air pollution and related phenomena exist in dynamic tension with Buddhist ideas and practices concerning purification, revitalisation and enlightenment. By focusing on light, its intersections and its oppositions, she illuminates Buddhist practices and beliefs as they interact with the pressing urban issues of air pollution, post-socialist economic vacillations, urban development, nationalism, and climate change |
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spelling | Abrahms-Kavunenko, Saskia Verfasser (DE-588)1232769606 aut Enlightenment and the gasping city Mongolian Buddhism at a time of environmental disarray Saskia Abrahms-Kavunenko Ithaca, NY Cornell University Press [2019] 1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 234 Seiten) txt rdacontent c rdamedia cr rdacarrier With air pollution now intimately affecting every resident of Ulaanbaatar, the capital of Mongolia, Saskia Abrahms-Kavunenko seeks to understand how, as a physical constant throughout the winter months, the murky and obscuring nature of air pollution has become an active part of Mongolian religious and ritual life. Enlightenment and the Gasping City identifies air pollution as a boundary between the physical and the immaterial, showing how air pollution impresses itself on the urban environment as stagnation and blur. She explores how air pollution and related phenomena exist in dynamic tension with Buddhist ideas and practices concerning purification, revitalisation and enlightenment. By focusing on light, its intersections and its oppositions, she illuminates Buddhist practices and beliefs as they interact with the pressing urban issues of air pollution, post-socialist economic vacillations, urban development, nationalism, and climate change SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social bisacsh Air Pollution Mongolia Ulaanbaatar Buddhism Mongolia Ulaanbaatar Ethnology Mongolia Ulaanbaatar Human ecology Religious aspects Buddhism Human ecology Mongolia Ulaanbaatar Ritual (DE-588)4050164-4 gnd rswk-swf Luftverschmutzung (DE-588)4074381-0 gnd rswk-swf Buddhismus (DE-588)4008690-2 gnd rswk-swf Ulan Bator (DE-588)4061507-8 gnd rswk-swf Ulan Bator (DE-588)4061507-8 g Luftverschmutzung (DE-588)4074381-0 s Ritual (DE-588)4050164-4 s Buddhismus (DE-588)4008690-2 s 1\p DE-604 Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe, Hardcover 978-1-5017-3764-0 Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe, Paperback 978-1-5017-3765-7 https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501737664 Verlag URL des Erstveröffentlichers Volltext 1\p cgwrk 20201028 DE-101 https://d-nb.info/provenance/plan#cgwrk |
spellingShingle | Abrahms-Kavunenko, Saskia Enlightenment and the gasping city Mongolian Buddhism at a time of environmental disarray SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social bisacsh Air Pollution Mongolia Ulaanbaatar Buddhism Mongolia Ulaanbaatar Ethnology Mongolia Ulaanbaatar Human ecology Religious aspects Buddhism Human ecology Mongolia Ulaanbaatar Ritual (DE-588)4050164-4 gnd Luftverschmutzung (DE-588)4074381-0 gnd Buddhismus (DE-588)4008690-2 gnd |
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title | Enlightenment and the gasping city Mongolian Buddhism at a time of environmental disarray |
title_auth | Enlightenment and the gasping city Mongolian Buddhism at a time of environmental disarray |
title_exact_search | Enlightenment and the gasping city Mongolian Buddhism at a time of environmental disarray |
title_full | Enlightenment and the gasping city Mongolian Buddhism at a time of environmental disarray Saskia Abrahms-Kavunenko |
title_fullStr | Enlightenment and the gasping city Mongolian Buddhism at a time of environmental disarray Saskia Abrahms-Kavunenko |
title_full_unstemmed | Enlightenment and the gasping city Mongolian Buddhism at a time of environmental disarray Saskia Abrahms-Kavunenko |
title_short | Enlightenment and the gasping city |
title_sort | enlightenment and the gasping city mongolian buddhism at a time of environmental disarray |
title_sub | Mongolian Buddhism at a time of environmental disarray |
topic | SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social bisacsh Air Pollution Mongolia Ulaanbaatar Buddhism Mongolia Ulaanbaatar Ethnology Mongolia Ulaanbaatar Human ecology Religious aspects Buddhism Human ecology Mongolia Ulaanbaatar Ritual (DE-588)4050164-4 gnd Luftverschmutzung (DE-588)4074381-0 gnd Buddhismus (DE-588)4008690-2 gnd |
topic_facet | SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social Air Pollution Mongolia Ulaanbaatar Buddhism Mongolia Ulaanbaatar Ethnology Mongolia Ulaanbaatar Human ecology Religious aspects Buddhism Human ecology Mongolia Ulaanbaatar Ritual Luftverschmutzung Buddhismus Ulan Bator |
url | https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501737664 |
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